Proposal: consumer sends special openid.server discovery header URL/arg

Fri May 20 09:25:57 PDT 2005

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

>
> On May 19, 2005, at 15:46, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> >
> > 1) New URL argument:
> >
> >    GET /users/brad/?openid.hint=find_server
> >    Host: www.livejournal.com
>
> I like it.
>
> A few thoughts:
>
> a) It should be mandatory to ensure adoption.  Best way to do that is
> if LJ only returns the openid server with that parameter. :)

It's too gross to be mandatory.  :)  Whatever we choose, it'll be
optional.

> b) What's the format?  Only one line with the openid link tag?   A
> full <head> block?   "Anything, but must be sgml-ish and include the
> <link> tag"?

Something, and at least a link tag.  Something might also include foaf
links, hcard links, etc.

- Brad